23 February 2021
NASA releases first audio recording of Mars and stunning landing video of Perseverance
... on another planet, as the spacecraft plummeted, parachuted, and rocketed toward the surface of Mars on 18 February. A microphone on the rover also has provided the first audio recording of sounds from Mars. From the moment of parachute inflation...
12 June 2020
NASA picks Astrobotic to fly VIPER to the Moon
... as part of the agency’s Artemis program. “The VIPER rover and the commercial partnership that will deliver it to the Moon...performance on the lunar surface prior to VIPER’s mission. The rover also will have a drill to bore approximately 3 feet into...
07 April 2021
Ingenuity survives first cold martian night on its own
...deployed from where it was attached to the belly of NASA’s Perseverance rover on 3 April is a major milestone for the 1.8 kilogram rotorcraft....test.” Devising a craft small enough to fit onto the rover, light enough to fly in Mars’ thin atmosphere, ...
24 June 2019
Unusually high methane spike detected by Curiosity
... at Teal Ridge or anywhere else on the planet, just that it definitely happened. The last spike in methane the rover recorded was questioned by some as being a by-product that Curiosity made itself, but independently confirmed results by scientists...
03 October 2016
Martian soil helps boost its atmosphere with noble gases
NASA's Curiosity rover has unearthed clues that the Red Planet’s ...team behind the discovery have been using the Sample Analysis at Mars instrument on board the rover, or SAM for short, to run a series of first-of-a-kind experiments to measure all ...
21 May 2021
New study suggests organic salts are likely present on Mars
...help from instruments in-situ, such as those carried by the Curiosity rover, it could make the job easier. And according to new research...suggest that until the European Space Agency’s forthcoming ExoMars rover lands on there Red Planet, CheMin is the ...
